Light Fantastic

Series

Series Name

London Line

Issue

Issue No.

545

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

197

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Light Fantastic

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: London Line saw a queue outside London’s Royal Academy announcing an exhibition under the title "Light Fantastic". So went in to find out what was going on and discovered an exhibition of objects that weren’t there. It was an exhibition of holograms by laser light; 3-dimensional visual records of objects, made without the aid of a camera. The recent breakthrough in perfecting the hologram was made at Loughborough University in the English midlands. Nick Phillips, senior physics lecturer ‘recreates’ a telephone as we watch. London Line’s conclusion: holography could replace photography one day and revolutionise much of our lives.

Researcher Comments

NB: ‘This Week In Britain, No. 957’ ran the same story

Keywords

Music and dance; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1257/545

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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